Quotes About Engagement

The problem, of course, with throwing people away is that they don't go away. They stay in the society that turned its back on them. And whether that society likes it or not, they find all sorts of things to do.

you think they want to wash?" I asked Harry and Zahra.

Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, eases your mind.

Kindness eases change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistibly rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it. A vacuum is there for you to enter and fill up the full measure of your aesthetic emotion.

It's a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can't experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.

In essence, one becomes what one participates in. In other words, I am what I look at.

One evening, when Stephen started to read out loud to her from one of his favorite authors, in an attempt to lure her inside the books, she told him good-naturedly, for goodness' sake not to spout any more of that dead, old-fashioned, high-brow stuff to her. It gave her the fidgets.

Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Indeed, half the battle of living a playful life lies in committing yourself to authentic communication. The fun of engagement with others soon follows.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oh, come, darling,' Guy protested, 'I didn't want to marry Sophie, but one has to be polite.

In open organizations, a catalyst is the person who initiates a circle and then fades away into the background.

Scrivendo, invece, servo a qualcosa. Vi sono tanti modi per fare la politica vista come nobile impegno, dovere. Io la faccio scrivendo.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

when everybody owns the challenge of generating results, very few stones get left unturned, and value is created at all levels.